straight-and-narrow

Updated: May 22, 2025

"James Bertrand Weyburn, eh?" he rasped. "I know all about you now, and you may as well can all that didn't-do-it stuff. Forget it and come down to business. You say you want to hit the straight-and-narrow: how would a job in a coal yard fit you? keepin' books and weighin'-in the coal cars?"

Francis Lynde - Branded

So Tutt was compelled to walk the straight-and-narrow path whether he liked it or not. On the whole he liked it well enough, but there were times usually in the spring when without being conscious of what was the matter with him he mourned his lost youth. For Tutt was only forty-eight and he had had a grandfather who had lived strenuously to upward of twice that age.

Arthur Cheney Train - Tutt and Mr. Tutt